[outages] Ebay dns record

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 03:31:27PM -0400,
 Jay Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote 
 a message of 94 lines which said:

> I note that Google's DNS servers, which my router seems to be
> pointed at, seem to be authoritative for *everything*;

This is not what I see:

% dig @8.8.8.8 A ebay.com

; <<>> DiG 9.7.3 <<>> @8.8.8.8 A ebay.com
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 28045
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags: do; udp: 512
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;ebay.com.			IN	A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
ebay.com.		1531	IN	A	66.211.160.87
ebay.com.		1531	IN	A	66.211.160.88
ebay.com.		1531	IN	A	66.135.205.13
ebay.com.		1531	IN	A	66.135.205.14

;; Query time: 45 msec
;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
;; WHEN: Mon Oct  1 21:49:25 2012
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 101


No AA in the flags.